In Memory of Dryball

[freedom475]

God Bless you Dennis... I shall remember you and your kindness and friendship everyime I shoulder the little sawed-off Crockett rifle that you traded to me for my son.

Thank you,
Wes

[windwalker_au]

i have lost a good friend Dennis i will miss you,i wish i could have met you in person  and burned some powder with you i will cherish the pics you sent me of your favorite places rest easy my friend and to his family he was a gentleman of the first order god bless you,Dennis will always be in my thoughts.
Bernie

[mongrel]

I left this forum, aways back, after a very ugly misunderstanding between Dennis and another member here. I never intended to come back. At the time I sincerely believed that a person I thought was a friend had been done a huge wrong, and my ability to forgive in cases like that is, shall we say, lacking.

However, Dennis found the bigness of heart and courage to approach me, on my own turf you might say, and offer to make amends. I have a highly developed BS detector and, as I've said, an underdeveloped ability to forgive, but reading Dennis' humble request I realized there was no BS about it, he felt terribly about how things had gone and wanted very much to be friends again. I had already learned the hard way that nothing and no one else about the original blow-up was as I had thought it to be, and I reckoned I must have been wrong about Dennis too, believing he'd been the one at fault. So -- I accepted his offer of at least a truce. That grew into an on-line friendship that I placed a high value on.

Proof of Dennis' goodness of heart and ability to rise above the meanness and anger of others, is that my account here was never banned or deleted. I've drifted in here and there in the past and always found my place in camp still held for me. Not many people would have had that degree of decency. Most would have written me off and been 100% right to do so. Dennis was one of those rare individuals who didn't let even being right deter him from acting with compassion and decency.

I found him at last to be one of the gentlest and kindest of human beings. It is a great regret of mine that I held hard feelings toward him as long as I did, and one of the blessings of my life that he overlooked that and still wished, in the end, to be my friend.

Vaya con Dios and Rest In Peace, my friend.

[DandJofAZ]

Well said ol' dog...I miss crazy old Dennis everytime I log on here..He deffinately wasn't like everybody else...
Doug

[mausercal65]

May the Lord be with you in this sad time ...

[DandJofAZ]

Not much of a sad time anymore...we just kick around memories of this fine old fellow who isn't with us anymore.  Funny how the good times stick with us and the times he was a stuborn old fart just get laughed at now...

Doug

[Red Badger]

Not much of a sad time anymore...we just kick around memories of this fine old fellow who isn't with us anymore.  Funny how the good times stick with us and the times he was a stuborn old fart just get laughed at now...

Doug

Put down the hacksaw and back away from the rifle.....   

[Hawken50]

  I just looked at my jukar Kentucky and thought about making it a carbine.....